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I'd go with both of those. Any fan of a certain age with silly romantic notions of why they love football will almost certainly love Villa Park. There's so much history to the ground. Villa Park ticks all the boxes as GB has alluded to - transport, plenty of old school pubs, a ground in a...

No, no and once again no. Firstly, I did not substitute the word unreliable for invalid. I said the source data was unreliable for measuring trends and then said that any conclusions drawn from it about trends are invalid. It's inference, standard logic. You on the other hand are taking...

You're being needlessly defensive here. I dare say that the ONS do believe that gun crime is increasing. It doesn't change the fact that the police figures quoting a 42% increase are, in the opinion of the ONS an unreliable source of information for tracking crime trends. It's as simple as...

I didn't miss it at all because despite the point you've highlighted, the ONS still issued that statement advising people not to draw any conclusions about crime trends from the police figures. If you've got issues with that, then you really need to take it up with the ONS.

No. They are not to be used as any sort of indication. The ONS made that very clear. No amount of sophism or pedantry regarding the definitions of invalid or unreliable will alter that. You want the quote verbatim? Here's the quote verbatim: “While these figures are useful in giving an insight...

Well..I'm quoting the ONS about any conclusions drawn re. crime trends being invalid, so you're saying that they don't get statistics. That's the Office for National Statistics. Righto.

I don't think that's completely true. It's his stance now but initially, he as good as dismissed the evidence. He misjudged this completely and I'm certain that the blame for that can be placed at the door of his advisor, the Stalin apologist, Seumas Milne. Milne has even tried to compare this...

Yes and no. That figure comes from stats collated by the police rather than the ONS, who have cautioned against using that data to make statements about crime trends. The stats are being heavily quoted as part of the Met PR to highlight police cuts so the figures will almost certainly be a...

Duffy's tackle on Rooney. 919814244857778177 Bosh.

...who, just a few days ago, was trying to blame Israel for orchestrating the Labour MPs condemnation of Russia. I don't think Murray can be regarded as totally neutral here either. He's now number two at Wiki-leaks and both he and Wiki-leaks have a fair bit of history of showing bias towards...

Seeing this right in front of me. Thank goodness Knockaert's leg was off the ground.

I don't think it's a very popular view on here but really pleased to see how well your club has done this year. It goes to show just how good a manager Dyche is (despite sounding like he moonlights as a blue comedian doing warm up for pound in the pint glass strip shows) and it's a miracle how...

Always. Still have v.fond memories of walking from Leigh on Sea to Southend whilst singing GOSBTS all the way.

This with bells on. Thank goodness that the Russian warmongering is largely being played out in Eastern Ukraine, Crimea and in Syria. If they start turning their attention to the disputes in the Baltic with Estonians and ethnic Russians then things could get a whole lot worse. If we can keep...

Statistically speaking, the next person you meet will almost certainly have an above average number of arms.

The Baader Meinhof Complex is a great watch. I've always found the story behind the terrorist group fascinating and I've long had a slight crush on Gudrun Enslinn and a rather bigger crush on the actress who plays her in the film. They don't pull too many punches and so you see the idealism but...

A rare occurrence but I'm in total agreement with you. The entire stadium giving the loudest collective roar heard there for many a game, partly in normal celebration but mainly to release all that tension that had been building from the moment we entered the PL. We'd been written off before the...

Agreed. Franco Baresi was one of the greatest tacklers, Jan Molby one of the greatest passers of a ball and Casper Ankergren the greatest time-waster the game has ever seen.

This is part of a photo of Raynsford leading the team out and I've circled a lad in the background wearing the Thunderbirds style hat that we all wore. It could even be me in the photo. Fame at last and in a thread about world class footballers.

Sadly, it was just that. Wrong time, wrong place. I can't find the squad for the Dartford game but there is a match report for the following tie against Oxford and this was the team: Worthing: Dovey, Flood, Aitken, Raysnford, Cox, Lelliott, Dove, Gill (Barnard, 71′), Foreman, Cornwell...